[dramatic music]
Good evening, ladies and gentlemen.
Tonight, through the medium of the animated cartoon
we present a murder mystery
condensed from authentic criminal records.
It is my sincere purpose in exposing the brutal killer
involved in this horrible case
to prove to you beyond the shadow of a doubt
that crime does not pay.
Our story opens on a dark and stormy night.
[dramatic music]
[thunder rumbling]
[screaming]
[evil laughter]
[screaming]
[evil laughter]
[screaming continues]
[laughing continues]
[thunder rumbling]
[dramatic music]
Kumbaya.
If this picture is anything like the book
I get bumped off.
[wobbling]
My, this is terrible.
I can't die at 11:30.
[wobbling]
[teeth chattering]
[ringing]
At the sound of the gun
it will be exactly twelve o'clock.
[creaking]
[banging]
[dramatic music]
[screeching]
[thuds]
Who dunnit?
Everybody stay where you are.
Don't nobody move.
[dramatic music]
[bangs]
That goes for you too, bud.
[bounces]
[camera shutter clicks]
Now, um, let's not get nosey, bub.
[ringing]
Okay, which one of you mugs bumped off the old boy?
Who done it?
[all] Oh, now, wouldn't you like to know?
One of you bums is guilty of shooting this guy.
I'm gonna turn out the lights.
And when I turn them on
I want to see the gun
here on this table.
[switch clicks]
[clanking]
[switch clicks]
Alright, cut out the funny stuff.
We'll try it again.
[switch clicks]
[dramatic music]
[water splats]
[dramatic music]
[clicks]
[knocking on door]
[clicks]
Okay, the three of you come on out there.
One, two, three,
four, five, six, seven, eight, ha ha,
nine, ten, eleven, twelve, thirteen
fourteen, fifteen, sixteen, seventeen
eighteen, nineteen, twenty.
[thuds]
[laughing]
[screaming]
[instrumental music]
[dramatic music]
[thudding]
Oh, yes, quite a bunch of us, isn't it?
[dramatic music]
[thumps]
[shatters]
[wobbling]
[knocking on door]
Who's there?
A skeleton.
Red skeleton, ha.
[instrumental music]
[dramatic music]
[gunshots]
[panting]
[gunshots]
[thuds]
[dramatic music]
[screams]
[clears throat]
[blowing pitch pipe]
Aah!
[instrumental music]
Phew.
Oops, I'm sorry.
[instrumental music]
Listen, Doc. Can't you read?
[thumps]
[clanks]
[screeching]
[pops]
[crashing]
[male #1] Stick 'em up.
Reach for the ceiling.
[instrumental music]
[dramatic music]
[clicking]
[dramatic music]
[galloping]
[screeching]
[whistles]
Peek-a-boo.
[crashes]
[bounces]
Now we'll see who done it.
I do-ed it.
[sobbing]
[instrumental music]